Michael Hirtzer

Not that it’s bad but it seems tomato bisque has overplayed its hand and it’s time for another soup.

Once Metra starts canceling trains and arriving super late, the rules of the “quiet car” sort of go out the wjndow. One of the more egregious violators on a packed car this morning is talking on the phone in a Dallas Cowboys cap while I’m staring into the void.

Apropos of nothing I’m glad I purchased an ad-free Kindle, to the extent having something tethered to the Amazon ship … is becoming more interesting.

Appropriately foggy after temps rose above freezing for the first time in forever 🌫️

Corduroys so wide in leg and wale that I wouldn’t dare to wear them in public even though they are so comfortable. It’s just my home-cords advantage.

A movie you really want to see that’s not on any streaming service but also probably lacks the rewatchability factor to make spending any money on it worth it

Adam McCay’s Vice

Rolling by a snowy Rate Field on the train listening to Mychael Danna’s ‘It’s a Process’ is feeling like kismet. That his song ‘Open’ from The Ice Storm came on after has me bracing for a fall. If you know you know.

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One of the few searching “Jedi Knights” not only for Star Wars but the electro-funk duo

Big Pun is the only person I’ve heard pronounce the word grammar with a short a.

Busta’s guest verse on Tribe’s ‘Solid Wall of Sound’ is one of my favorite tings he’s done.

Of course I’m loving the new Bon Iver album. When I got to ‘From’ I almost thought I was hearing Bonnie Raitt’s ‘Nick of Time,’ and nothing’s really wrong with that.

Me at magic hour, The sun comes in at an angle like this EVERY DAY?!?

Experimenting with a tilt shift. Instead of calling my work-in-progress list just a ‘WIP’ I changed the name of my note to ‘WIP Affirmations.’ Hopefully it pays off for me.